Enhancing Community Resilience Planning - Actions to Increase the Accessibility and Use of Decision-Relevant Resilience Data & Information
Abstract
Community resilience planning is a complex analysis and engagement process that intersects multiple fields of scientific research and technical fields of practice. Communities engaging in resilience planning aim to develop goals and projects that when implemented will help them prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and rapidly recover from disruptions. Currently, in the United States, communities and the municipal governments that represent the constituents that represent a community, have primary responsibility for developing priorities, articulating strategies, and acquiring funding for implementation of community resilience plans. This requires community officials to have the technical know-how and skillset to discover, access, and integrate data from multiple scientific fields and sources and understand methods to analyze these data to inform their community resilience goals. Organizations in other sectors, including non-governmental organizations and private sector firms, often support communities and have an important role as an aggregator or curator of high quality and validated data, as well as an intermediary and translator of technical information.
To better characterize the current issues, approaches, and challenges facing communities performing analyses in support of community resilience planning, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) convened a workshop on Data Needs for Resilience Planning and Decision-Making in October 2018 that brought together a national representation of community officials, researchers, and practitioners involved in resilience planning from a diversity of sectors. This presentation will discuss findings from this NIST's efforts and the workshop on current issues and approaches to improve the accessibility, discoverability, and use of resilience planning data, and highlight necessary actions to enhance cross-sector collaboration on resilience planning. Potential actions that will be discussed include the development of minimum sets or criteria for resilience standards and metrics, resilience data management standards, best practices for resilience data and information curation, and opportunities for resilience planning leadership, training, and workforce development.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMPA31B..02C
- Keywords:
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- 4327 Resilience;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 4328 Risk;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment;
- NATURAL HAZARDS